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Curriculum Vitae Chandan V Nagaraja S/o Nagaraja .V.M #677,2nd Cross, 3rd Main, 5th Stage, 2nd Phase, B.E.M.L Layout, RR Nagar Bangalore -560098 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chandan1677 Mobile: +91-9740071677 Date of Birth: 18-June-1984

Career Objective: Seeking Senior Technical/ Mid-level managerial assignments in IT Infrastructure Industry with a technology driven organization of repute

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VMware Certified Professional on VI3 2.4+ Years of Experience in Virtualization Environment Technocrat in VMware Products & Microsoft Currently working in IBM as VMware Specialist for an US Client

Education 2003-2006

Bachelor of Engineering in E & C R N S Institute of Technology, Bangalore Visveswaraiah Technological University, India

2000-2003

Diploma in Electronics & Communication P E S Institute of Technology, Bangalore Board of Technical Education, India

1999-2000

Secondary School Certificate St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bangalore Karnataka Secondary Education Board, India

Professional Experience IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore Client: HESS

April 2008 – Till Date

VMware / Windows Specialist Duties Include:

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Managing the VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Centre 2.5, as per HESS Requirements Managing RFS and Change activities with a Team of 4 members as a Focal Point Managing around 180 ESX servers and 1100 Virtual Machines Configuring and building ESX Servers, licensing and custom configuration. P2V Migration (VMware P2V converter) and V2P Migration (Plate spin Power convert) & Implemented V2V conversion using VMware Converter. Regular BAU activities such as increasing disk size, adding additional drives, Cloning, Teaming Networking and Virtual Switches. ( both Primary and Extended ) Successfully completed Email Archiving Project in Hess Corporation. Building up ESX and VM servers for Email Archiving project on all datacenter. Snapshot Management. Upgraded from VMware ESX server from 3.0.2 to 3.5 in test environment Configured High Availability(HA) and Distribution Resource Scheduler(DRS) Created and managed hierarchical Resource pools for admission control and managed the pools’ resources Managed access control delegation of VMs using Virtual Center Created and managed VMFS data stores. Configured additional ESX server to the existing production cluster Frequently checked ESX server logs for any problems and troubleshoot whenever necessary. Create Virtual Machines using existing templates in ESX servers Used VMotion to Hot and Cold migrated VM’s from one ESX server to different ESX server Installed and configured HP System Management, IBM director agent & DELL System on all ESX server Hardware monitoring and alerts.

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Troubleshoot any operating system issues in VMWare Environment. Worked with application team in resolving any issues related application installed on the servers

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Converted the GSX Environment to an ESX environment with all the prerequisites

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Created Root Cause Analysis(RCA) for any P2V outages and server problems

failures and for any server

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Monitored ESX server alarms and VM’s alarms and acted on those incidents to resolve Generated report on the Performance of the VM’s and ESX servers using Virtual Center Upgraded all servers BIOS, BMC, Diagnosis tools and RSA to the latest firmware Worked with backup team to troubleshoot any issues with server backup failures Pushed the Patches and Updates through Update Manager in Virtual Infrastructure Center Server Worked with the VMware technical team and backup team for ESXpress VMware Third Party backup.

Windows Administrator Duties Include:

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Managing the servers located in different region of the globe. The Major domains supported are Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific regions Maintaining 1000+ Windows Servers with all new issues raising on a daily basis Analyzed Memory Dump on Windows 2000 & 2003 Servers Analyzed Application , System , Security logs for troubleshooting Installation and Configuration of IBM Tools on all Windows Servers Used Print Migrator Utility Tool to migrate multiple Printers from one server to another Monitored ticket system for any incident ticket, responded and worked on resolving the ticket within SLA metrics Worked on Backup issues such as VSS ( Volume Shadow Copy ) Worked on providing Solutions for HIGH CPU Utilization and Memory Consumption Maintain Disk Space Standards according to the requirements of HESS Edited VB & PowerShell Scripts to match the Situation and meet the requirements Knowledge of various ITIL processes (Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management). Installed security patches in the time frame as defined by VSA , generated change management tickets for getting approval from the application owner and business units for installation of the patch Setting up an Architecture & Test Environment for Windows 2008 to gain the approval from HESS for Future Implementation

IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore Client: Square-D 2008 Windows Administrator/ VMware Administration Duties Include:

July 2007 – April

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Managing the servers located in different region of the globe. The Major domains supported are Americas and Asia Pac regions Managed the Guest OS (VMs) using VI Client like Powering Off & ON Provided administration access to user and domain groups based on the request from the application owner to Guest OS Configured all IBM Tools to ensure that the Customer environment is compliance with IBM Creation of User ID in Windows and Novell Based Windows Environment Familiarized with various IBM tools (Maximo, SRM, LCFD, VSA, ITM, Net view, Parity).

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Professional Certifications • •

MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator) 2003. VMware Certified Professional ( VCP -310 ) 4 Foundational Competency Courses completed in IBM.

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Achievements in IBM • • •

Achieved Highest Rating for the Year 2008-2009. Got the name as “Twinkling Star “of the Team HESS for 2008-2009. Also got the name as “Real Star “for the Team HESS for 2008-2009.

Hobbies •

Browsing through the internet & providing Reply for issues on Blog from other Users across the World.

Chandan V Nagaraja